A look into WWE playing hot potato with the RAW and SmackDown Women's Championships

[mrken12]

I see his point, which from what I can tell is that if you want to see women acting slutty you don't have to go to the store and buy a Playboy or pay $15 for a porn movie from Pay Per View anymore. If I'm watching a wrestling show The main thing I want to see is wrestling, when I want to see smut I'll just Google it and watch it for free.

The bra and panties matches worked for that era but nowadays I don't need to see two chicks in their undies who can't wrestle pretending to do so when I'm watching a wrestling show. Just my perspective.

Careful or people will think that you were raised by lesbians.

 

[Mob H]

Countless amounts of porn is so easily accessible and normal these days, why would anyone watch a WWE match just to see slightly more cleavage and ass cheek than with what they're already wearing?

 

[RammerJammer]

Except Asuka and Ember got a standing ovation. They care more than a Roman Reigns match apparently.

Right, Women's matches main eventing, getting standing ovations, and are no longer considered piss breaks.

 

[Zebruh]

nikkas really arguing about bra and panties matches????

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

I can think of two reasons to justify it: titles changes build a buzz and it shows the divisions are very competitive. They are probably stuck on when the UFC broads title switched 3 times in a row or whatever.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Give the the Women their own show, that way more people like Zayn, Roode and Balor have more screentime

They have their own show, its called Total Divas

 

[niguez]

They have their own show, its called Total Divas

Call me crazy but I think the womens title revolves around storyline with Total Divas.

Naomi, Alexa and Nattie have been champions thus far during next seasons shoot. Nia Jax up next?

 

[reigun]

I wouldn't call the Smackdown title hot potatoed. Four women have held it, but all save Natayla (whose reign just started) held it for at least two months and had successful title defenses. The only time things got weird were injuries (both Becky and Naomi were injured while holding the belt, and the latter had to vacate it till Mania). Compare that to Raw, where the post-draft months had the title bouncing back and forth between Charlotte and Sasha. Bliss has had the best reign post draft by default because the others were so bad.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

I wouldn't call the Smackdown title hot potatoed. Four women have held it, but all save Natayla (whose reign just started) held it for at least two months and had successful title defenses. The only time things got weird were injuries (both Becky and Naomi were injured while holding the belt, and the latter had to vacate it till Mania). Compare that to Raw, where the post-draft months had the title bouncing back and forth between Charlotte and Sasha. Bliss has had the best reign post draft by default because the others were so bad.

Any of Charlotte's and Sasha's were better than Alexa's. So they traded it back and forth, so what? At least they had good matches.

What's been Alexa's best moment? Certainly nothing in her woat program with Bayley.

 

[reigun]

Any of Charlotte's and Sasha's were better than Alexa's. So they traded it back and forth, so what? At least they had good matches.

What's been Alexa's best moment? Certainly nothing in her woat program with Bayley.

Not saying Bliss' is good. It's just the least bad. At least by virtue of the fact that Alexa has actually held on to the belt and been in feuds with multiple people. But they've all been bad.

They could have had those good matches while also not turning the title into a joke. Or without ignoring most of the division. Or without cutting the same promos and telling the same stories for months. The matches were good and I certainly won't take that away, but I'm also not going to overlook how bored I was of the whole thing over time or how it was just WWE trying to inflate numbers and hold on to records no one gives a shyt about.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Not saying Bliss' is good. It's just the least bad. At least by virtue of the fact that Alexa has actually held on to the belt and been in feuds with multiple people. But they've all been bad.

They could have had those good matches while also not turning the title into a joke. Or without ignoring most of the division. Or without cutting the same promos and telling the same stories for months. The matches were good and I certainly won't take that away, but I'm also not going to overlook how bored I was of the whole thing over time or how it was just WWE trying to inflate numbers and hold on to records no one gives a shyt about.

Yall say this but look where we are now. Way worse.

Of course it could've been better on the creative end but that's just WWE for you, they're creatively bankrupt and they prove it every week.

If we're being honest, the Sasha/Charlotte feud was the best/most important/most legit the women's division has ever been.

 

[reigun]

Yall say this but look where we are now. Way worse.

Of course it could've been better on the creative end but that's just WWE for you, they're creatively bankrupt and they prove it every week.

If we're being honest, the Sasha/Charlotte feud was the best/most important/most legit the women's division has ever been.

Fair enough.

Honestly, when it comes to the Raw women, everything has just led to me being completely tuned out. They killed Sasha/Charlotte by overbooking it, and nothing has gotten close to what that was at its best since. I'm not going to say it's totally "bathroom break" level again, but they've managed to just make me not interested. Especially when you compare it to Smackdown's division, which has always been better booked, and NXT, which has been turning out matches as good as anything from Sasha/Charlotte in recent months. And this is all in the same company, showing WWE can do better. Just for reason, when it comes to Raw's women, they just....don't.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Fair enough.

Honestly, when it comes to the Raw women, everything has just led to me being completely tuned out. They killed Sasha/Charlotte by overbooking it, and nothing has gotten close to what that was at its best since. I'm not going to say it's totally "bathroom break" level again, but they've managed to just make me not interested. Especially when you compare it to Smackdown's division, which has always been better booked, and NXT, which has been turning out matches as good as anything from Sasha/Charlotte in recent months. And this is all in the same company, showing WWE can do better. Just for reason, when it comes to Raw's women, they just....don't.

Yeah I just feel that way about the product as a whole.

 

[2CT]

Any of Charlotte's and Sasha's were better than Alexa's. So they traded it back and forth, so what? At least they had good matches.

What's been Alexa's best moment? Certainly nothing in her woat program with Bayley.

Alexa and Becky had a tables match and it was better than the women's MITB matches for sure and right on par with the HIAC match IMO

that's Alexa's highlight moment for me, she did her thing in that match

 

[reigun]

Alexa and Becky had a tables match and it was better than the women's MITB matches for sure and right on par with the HIAC match IMO

that's Alexa's highlight moment for me, she did her thing in that match

They don't appreciate Becky at all. She was one of the best babyfaces in the company during her title program last year. And then she got pushed aside because, apparently, Kevin Dunn doesn't like her accent.